Hereafter

Revelation 1:19:  “Write…what is to take place hereafter.”

            The word “hereafter” must have a reference point.  In this case, it meant “after the time of this vision to John.”  The reference point was the time at which the words were spoken.  It therefore could mean the same as “the things which must shortly come to pass” in verse 1:1.

            “Hereafter” means “after this in sequence or in time.”  It does not refer to a continually moving point of time, but to the time at which it is spoken.  For example, the word does not refer to something that will happen “after” some event of the twentieth century, since it was spoken in the first century.